Mills Music Trust is set up to collect payments derived from a deferred and contingent purchase agreement. This arrangement pertains to a portfolio of music and lyric copyrights, with EMI Mills Music Inc. being the entity obligated to make these payments, predominantly within the United States. The exact value of the contingent portion of these payments is directly tied to the royalty earnings produced by the catalogue's contents. EMI Mills Music Inc. functions as the proprietor of the copyrighted intellectual property found within this collection. Mills Music Trust was established in 1964 and maintains its operational base in New York, New York.